Homesite

[topcats]

I am getting a BIG problem

On trying to map to a vault folder i get

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
repeatedly

If works fine for classic and VSS

Thanks

Tristan

[dan]

Can you describe the steps you are taking, and include the output of Help->Technical Support, and also what the path is to the folder you are mapping (is it local to the machine, etc).

Thanks,

[topcats]

Under Homesite
I am creating a new project (as usual)
then choosing the source control provider or vault (as usual)
then when I go to map the project to the appropriate folder in the vault repository is fails.

Usually a window would popup and show the source control folder structure.


The path on the local drive is the same as the working folder set with the main gui.

Client Information
Vault Client Version: 2.0.4.2190
No Operating System information is avaiable (Is actually Windows Xp SP1)
No Computer System information is available
Timezone: Unknown (Same as server)

Server Information
Vault Server Version: 2.0.4.2190
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Service Pack: 4.0
OS Version: 5.0.2195
Timezone: (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London
SQL Version: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)

License Information
License ID: 48223
Customer ID: 42710
Number of Licenses: 25
License Type: Full
Creation Date: 05/08/2004
Activated: Y

[dan]

This looks like a bug related to Vault integration with Homesite. We only test and officially support Visual Studio, but we may be able to figure out why this is happening. Send me your email information privately, and we'll see what we can do.

[dan]

After looking at this for quite awhile, it doesn't appear that we will not be able to get IDE integration working with Homesite for the immediate future. There are issues both with differences between the way Homesite and Visual Studio call into the IDE, and the fact that the Vault IDE is a managed app, and SOS is not. Attempting to get this working on a dev machine just caused bigger problems (as is often the case with this API).

So, sorry to bring bad news, but you'll have to use the standalone client if you will be using Homesite.